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Earlier today at a press conference in Oregon, the Deschutes County Sheriff briefed the results of his office’s Major Incident Team’s investigation into the shooting of LaVoy Finicum by Oregon State Police on 26 January 2016. The investigation determined that the shooting of Mr. Finicum was justified and that he was shot three times. Much of the new information and evidence presented today came from video that Shawna Cox took from inside Mr. Finicum’s truck, information that contradicts statements that she and the other passenger’s in the truck have been making since Mr. Finicum was shot.

Below is the video of today’s press conference in its entirety (h/t: RawStory). This includes the previously released FBI aerial surveillance video of the events of 26 January with Ms. Cox’s video overlaid on the FBI’s surveillance video. On the video you can clearly hear Mr. Finicum threatening law enforcement and making threatening statements about what would happen if they didn’t stand down.

Before we get to the links to the charging documents, let’s finish the roundup with Grant County Sheriff Palmer. Sheriff Palmer seems to be so compromised that the dispatchers on the night of the initial arrests considered him to be an insider threat of a security leak. They were worried if they told him anything, then he would compromise the attempt to take the Bundys, Finicum, Payne, and the other occupation leaders into custody. Les Saitz, on his twitter feed, has reported that Sheriff Palmer is being investigated and that could lead to his law enforcement certification being revoked. It is not quite clear what that means for his ability to remain in the elected position of sheriff.

elftx just posted this analysis by Professor Susan Lea Smith of Willamette University on disbarred Florida attorney, Tea Party activist, and apparent sovereign citizen Kriss Ann Hall’s understanding of the Constitutionality of Federal property ownership. I had meant to include it in tonight’s update and simply forgot. Good catch elftx!